Macleod (electoral district)
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This article is about the Alberta electoral district. For the Northwest Territories electoral district, see Macleod (N.W.T. electoral district).
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| Macleod in relation to the other Alberta federal electoral districts | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Conservative |
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| District created | 1987 | ||
| First contested | 1988 | ||
| Last contested | 2011 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2011)[2] | 123,778 | ||
| Electors (2011) | 81,141 | ||
| Area (km²)[1] | 28,303.15 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 4.4 | ||
| Census divisions | Division No. 3, Division No. 6, Division No. 15 | ||
| Census subdivisions | Calgary, Rocky View County, Foothills No. 31, Okotoks, Cochrane, High River, Crowsnest Pass, Willow Creek No. 26, Blood 148, Cardston County | ||
Macleod is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1968 and since 1988. It is a rural riding in southwest Alberta, representing the municipal districts of Foothills, Willow Creek, Pincher Creek, Ranchland, and Vulcan County, as well as Crowsnest Pass, and Kananaskis Improvement District.
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[edit] History
This riding was originally created in 1907 from parts of District of Alberta and Calgary ridings.
It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Rocky Mountain, Palliser Crowfoot, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat ridings.
It was re-created in 1987 from Bow River, Lethbridge—Foothills, Medicine Hat and Wild Rose ridings.
[edit] Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of the Canadian House of Commons:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calgary and Alberta (Provisional District) prior to 1907 | ||||
| 11th | 1908–1911 | John Herron | Liberal-Conservative | |
| 12th | 1911–1917 | David Warnock | Liberal | |
| 13th | 1917–1921 | Hugh Murray Shaw | Unionist | |
| 14th | 1921–1925 | George Gibson Coote | Progressive | |
| 15th | 1925–1926 | |||
| 16th | 1926–1930 | United Farmers | ||
| 17th | 1930–1935 | |||
| 18th | 1935–1940 | Ernest George Hansell | Social Credit | |
| 19th | 1940–1945 | |||
| 20th | 1945–1949 | |||
| 21st | 1949–1953 | |||
| 22nd | 1953–1957 | |||
| 23rd | 1957–1958 | |||
| 24th | 1958–1962 | Lawrence Kindt | Progressive Conservative | |
| 25th | 1962–1963 | |||
| 26th | 1963–1965 | |||
| 27th | 1965–1968 | |||
| see Crowfoot, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Palliser and Rocky Mountain for 1968-1987 | ||||
| 34th | 1988–1993 | Kenneth Gardner Hughes | Progressive Conservative | |
| 35th | 1993–1997 | Grant Hill | Reform | |
| 36th | 1997–2000 | |||
| 2000 | Canadian Alliance | |||
| 37th | 2000–2003 | |||
| 2003–2004 | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 2004 | Conservative | |||
| 38th | 2004–2006 | Ted Menzies | Conservative | |
| 39th | 2006–2008 | |||
| 40th | 2008–2011 | |||
| 41st | 2011–present | |||
[edit] Current Member of Parliament
Its Member of Parliament is Ted Menzies, a former farmer. He was first elected in 2004. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. In the 38th Parliament he was the Conservative critic for Internal Trade and Interprovincial Trade and the critic for International Cooperation. He also served as vice-chair of the Subcommittee on International Trade, Trade Disputes and Investment of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade and a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. In the 39th Parliament, Menzies was appointed parliamentary secretary to Josée Verner, who is the Minister for International Cooperation, Minister responsible for Official Languages, and Minister responsible for La Francophonie.
[edit] Election results
[edit] 1988 - present
| Canadian federal election, 2011 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | Expenditures | |
| Conservative | Ted Menzies | 40,007 | 77.48 | +0.12 | ||
| New Democratic | Janine Giles | 5,335 | 10.33 | +3.64 | ||
| Green | Attila Nagy | 2,389 | 4.63 | -4.48 | ||
| Liberal | Nicole Hankel | 1,898 | 3.68 | -2.24 | ||
| Progressive Canadian | Brad Carrigan | 1,754 | 3.40 | * | ||
| Christian Heritage | Marc Slingerland | 252 | 0.49 | -0.43 | ||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 51,635 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 157 | 0.30 | +0.10 | |||
| Turnout | 51,792 | 61.52 | +5.13 | |||
| Eligible voters | 84,182 | – | – | |||
| Canadian federal election, 2008 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | Expenditures | |
| Conservative | Ted Menzies | 35,328 | 77.36 | +1.91 | $47,418 | |
| New Democratic | Stan Knowlton | 3,053 | 6.69 | +0.16 | $4,003 | |
| Green | Jared McCollum | 4,161 | 9.11 | +2.93 | $3,884 | |
| Liberal | Isabel Paynter | 2,703 | 5.92 | -3.31 | $7,424 | |
| Christian Heritage | Marc Slingerland | 422 | 0.92 | – | ||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 45,667 | 100.00 | $96,193 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 91 | 0.20 | -0.07 | |||
| Turnout | 45,758 | 56.39 | -3.64 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 2006: Macleod [edit] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Conservative | Ted Menzies | 37,534 | 75.45 | +0.69 | ||
| Liberal | Bernie Kennedy | 4,596 | 9.23 | -2.86 | ||
| New Democratic | Joyce Thomas | 3,251 | 6.53 | +0.04 | ||
| Green | Larry Ashmore | 3,075 | 6.18 | -0.46 | ||
| Independent | Myron Wolf Child | 1,055 | 2.12 | – | ||
| Canadian Action | Catherine Whelan Costen | 235 | 0.47 | – | ||
| Total valid votes | 49,879 | 100.00 | – | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 133 | 0.27 | +0.01 | |||
| Turnout | 43,224 | 60.03 | 0.00 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 2004 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | Expenditures | |
| Conservative | Ted Menzies | 32,232 | 74.76 | -9.12 | $45,277 | |
| Liberal | Chris Shade | 5,214 | 12.09 | 2.68 | ||
| Green | Laurel Denise Fadeeff | 2,865 | 6.64 | – | $1,011 | |
| New Democratic | Joyce Thomas | 2,802 | 6.49 | -0.21 | $1,368 | |
| Total valid votes | 43,113 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 111 | 0.26 | 0.00 | |||
| Turnout | 43,224 | 60.03 | -2.74 | |||
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance vote in 2000.
| Canadian federal election, 2000 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | Expenditures | |
| Alliance | Grant Hill | 30,783 | 70.05 | +2.03 | $47,809 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Cyril R. Abbott | 6,079 | 13.83 | -1.76 | $9,380 | |
| Liberal | Marlene LaMontagne | 4,137 | 9.41 | +5.36 | $5,561 | |
| New Democratic | Dwayne Good Striker | 2,945 | 6.70 | +5.99 | $524 | |
| Total valid votes | 43,944 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 116 | 0.26 | +0.11 | |||
| Turnout | 44,060 | 62.77 | +6.20 | |||
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997.
| Canadian federal election, 1997 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | Expenditures | |
| Reform | Grant Hill | 24,225 | 68.02 | +4.62 | $40,614 | |
| Progressive Conservative | Tim Anderson | 5,555 | 15.59 | -1.77 | $32,047 | |
| Liberal | Christopher Paton-Gay | 4,137 | 11.61 | -4.62 | $41,335 | |
| New Democratic | Stanley Carl Knowlton | 1,444 | 4.05 | +2.15 | $2,140 | |
| Natural Law | Diane Shapka | 253 | 0.71 | +0.18 | ||
| Total valid votes | 35,614 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 53 | 0.15 | ||||
| Turnout | 35,667 | 56.57 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1993 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Reform | Grant Hill | 23,803 | 63.40 | +32.19 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Kenneth Gardner Hughes | 6,517 | 17.36 | -33.16 | ||
| Liberal | Roy Whitney | 6,095 | 16.23 | +6.79 | ||
| New Democratic | Susanne Abildgaard | 714 | 1.90 | -6.67 | ||
| Green | Warren Smith | 214 | 0.57 | |||
| Natural Law | Gloria Hansen | 200 | 0.53 | |||
| Total valid votes | 37,543 | 100.00 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1988 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Kenneth Gardner Hughes | 16,989 | 50.52 | |||
| Reform | Ken Copithorne | 10,498 | 31.22 | |||
| Liberal | Ernie Patterson | 3,175 | 9.44 | |||
| New Democratic | Gary Taje | 2,884 | 8.58 | 0.25 | ||
| Commonwealth of Canada | F.B. Tex Hover | 84 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 33,630 | 100.00 | ||||
[edit] 1908 - 1968
| Canadian federal election, 1965 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Lawrence Kindt | 8,706 | 44.32 | -1.00 | ||
| Social Credit | Ernie Patterson | 6,487 | 33.03 | -3.08 | ||
| Liberal | Bill Matheson | 3,142 | 16.00 | +2.72 | ||
| New Democratic | Sam Brown | 1,307 | 6.65 | +1.36 | ||
| Total valid votes | 19,642 | 100.00 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1963 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Lawrence Kindt | 9,785 | 45.32 | -0.52 | ||
| Social Credit | Ernie Patterson | 7,795 | 36.11 | +2.84 | ||
| Liberal | Robert Bostrom | 2,866 | 13.28 | -1.68 | ||
| New Democratic | John P. Griffin | 1,143 | 5.29 | -0.65 | ||
| Total valid votes | 21,589 | 100.00 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1962 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Lawrence Kindt | 9,605 | 45.84 | -13.19 | ||
| Social Credit | Ernie Patterson | 6,970 | 33.26 | +5.40 | ||
| Liberal | James A. Coutts | 3,133 | 14.95 | +5.50 | ||
| New Democratic | John P. Griffin | 1,245 | 5.94 | +2.29 | ||
| Total valid votes | 20,953 | 100.00 | ||||
Note: NDP vote is compared to CCF vote in 1958 election.
| Canadian federal election, 1958 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Lawrence Kindt | 11,911 | 59.03 | +32.69 | ||
| Social Credit | Ernest George Hansell | 5,623 | 27.87 | -15.80 | ||
| Liberal | James Derrick | 1,907 | 9.45 | -15.34 | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | John Purrier Griffin | 736 | 3.65 | -1.55 | ||
| Total valid votes | 20,177 | 100.00 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1957 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Social Credit | Ernest George Hansell | 8,411 | 43.67 | -4.71 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Lawrence Kindt | 5,073 | 26.34 | +6.14 | ||
| Liberal | Gordon Lloyd Burton | 4,774 | 24.79 | +0.84 | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | John Purrier Griffin | 1,001 | 5.20 | +1.18 | ||
| Total valid votes | 19,259 | 100.00 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1953 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Social Credit | Ernest George Hansell | 8,685 | 48.39 | +3.30 | ||
| Liberal | John Joseph McIntyre | 4,298 | 23.95 | -0.79 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Warren Cecil Cooper | 3,625 | 20.20 | +0.04 | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Leslie Norman Howard | 721 | 4.02 | -6.00 | ||
| Labor-Progressive | Anthony Patera | 620 | 3.45 | |||
| Total valid votes | 17,949 | 100.00 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1949 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Social Credit | Ernest George Hansell | 7,411 | 45.08 | +7.93 | ||
| Liberal | Alfred Gladstone Lewis | 4,066 | 24.74 | +9.39 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Stanley Wyatt | 3,314 | 20.16 | -2.83 | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | John Purrier Griffin | 1,647 | 10.02 | -5.03 | ||
| Total valid votes | 16,438 | 100.00 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1945 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Social Credit | Ernest George Hansell | 6,342 | 37.16 | -2.69 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Stanley Wyatt | 3,924 | 22.99 | +4.80 | ||
| Liberal | Alfred Gladstone Lewis | 2,620 | 15.35 | -13.56 | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Otto Edward Wobick | 2,569 | 15.05 | +2.00 | ||
| Labor-Progressive | William Austin Arland | 1,613 | 9.45 | |||
| Total valid votes | 17,068 | 100.00 | ||||
Note: Progressive Conservative vote is compared to "National Government" vote in 1940 election.
| Canadian federal election, 1940 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Social Credit | Ernest George Hansell | 6,655 | 39.84 | -8.74 | ||
| Liberal | Francis Olestes McKenna | 4,829 | 28.91 | +16.74 | ||
| National Government | Grier Rider Davis | 3,039 | 18.19 | +3.68 | ||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | Ruth House McBride | 2,180 | 13.05 | -11.68 | ||
| Total valid votes | 16,703 | 100.00 | ||||
Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election.'
| Canadian federal election, 1935 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Social Credit | Ernest George Hansell | 7,028 | 48.58 | |||
| Co-operative Commonwealth | George Gibson Coote | 3,577 | 24.73 | |||
| Conservative | John Walter Matthewson | 2,100 | 14.52 | -32.44 | ||
| Liberal | Frank Olestes McKenna | 1,761 | 12.17 | |||
| Total valid votes | 14,466 | 100.00 | ||||
Note: George Gibson Coote's CCF vote is compared to his UFA vote in 1930 election.
| Canadian federal election, 1930 | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| United Farmers of Alberta | George Gibson Coote | 6,897 | 53.05 | -13.33 | ||
| Conservative | Joseph Duncan Matheson | 6,105 | 46.95 | +13.33 | ||
| Total valid votes | 13,002 | 100.00 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1926 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| United Farmers of Alberta | George Gibson Coote | 6,840 | 66.38 | +21.94 | ||
| Conservative | John Herron | 3,465 | 33.62 | -4.49 | ||
| Total valid votes | 10,305 | 100.00 | ||||
Note: UFA vote is compared to Progressive vote in 1925 election.
| Canadian federal election, 1925 | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Progressive | George Gibson Coote | 4,943 | 44.44 | -15.33 | ||
| Conservative | John Herron | 4,239 | 38.11 | +20.76 | ||
| Liberal | Thomas Milnes | 1,941 | 17.45 | +8.40 | ||
| Total valid votes | 11,123 | 100.00 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1921 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Progressive | George Gibson Coote | 6,086 | 59.77 | |||
| Conservative | Hugh Murray Shaw | 1,767 | 17.35 | -41.67 | ||
| Labour | James Fairhurst | 1,407 | 13.82 | |||
| Liberal | Joseph E. Gillis | 922 | 9.06 | -20.99 | ||
| Total valid votes | 10,182 | 100.00 | ||||
Note: Conservative vote is compared to Unionist vote in 1917 election.
| Canadian federal election, 1917 | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Government (Unionist) | Hugh Murray Shaw | 5,128 | 59.02 | +20.65 | ||
| Opposition (Laurier Liberals) | Donald Randolph McIvor | 2,610 | 30.04 | -19.40 | ||
| Non-Partisan League | Stephen Thorne Marshall | 950 | 10.93 | |||
| Total valid votes | 8,688 | 100.00 | ||||
Note: Unionist vote is compared to Liberal-Conservative vote in 1911 election.
| Canadian federal election, 1911 | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±pp | ||
| Liberal | David Warnock | 3,660 | 49.44 | +7.09 | ||
| Liberal-Conservative | John Herron | 2,841 | 38.38 | -8.67 | ||
| Independent | Edmund Fulcher | 902 | 12.18 | |||
| Total valid votes | 7,403 | 100.00 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1908 | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
| Liberal-Conservative | John Herron | 2,935 | 47.04 | |||
| Liberal | Allan Ban MacDonald | 2,642 | 42.35 | |||
| Independent | John Harrington | 662 | 10.61 | |||
| Total valid votes | 6,239 | 100.00 | ||||
[edit] See also
- List of Canadian federal electoral districts
- Alberta federal electoral districts
- Past Canadian electoral districts
[edit] References
- "(Code 48020) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=FED&Code1=48020&Geo2=PR&Code2=48&Data=Count&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
- Library of Parliament Riding Profile (1907-1966)
- Library of Parliament Riding Profile (1987-present)
- Expenditures - 2008
- Expenditures - 2004
- Expenditures - 2000
- Expenditures - 1997
[edit] Notes
- ^ Stastistics Canada: 2012
- ^ Stastistics Canada: 2012
[edit] External links
- Elections Canada
- Website of the Parliament of Canada
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